134. giveaway: elizabeth & james deconstructed tee
July 3rd, 2009 § 17 Comments
As much as I love vintage frocks, one thing that I can’t turn down is a good white tee-shirt. I’ve run the gamut from Hanes’s Men’s ComfortSoft to Kova & T to the standard American Apparel, and I have to say that my obsession with a perfect plain white tee continues to this day. It’s about a certain amount of sheerness, combined with a great cut and a floaty softness that caresses the skin. Though I’m still on the hunt for the tee of my dreams, I love to wear the ones I have with puffy skirts; I love to wear them with slim-fit black trousers; something high-waisted and fancy goes great with the classic simplicity of something slouchy and soft. And the slightly see-through nature of such a tee gives the perfect amount of sexy when choosing undergarments.
Designer web-store Chickdowntown and FFW have teamed up to give one lucky reader an Elizabeth and James deconstructed white tee (retail: $90). (Other designers Chickdowntown carries include Loeffler Randall and McQ Alexander McQueen.)
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RULES:
1. Comment on this post with a brief description of your favorite tee-shirt. Things you might mention include where you found or bought it and what makes it great. Make sure to include some sort of name and email with the post so that I can hunt down the winner.
2. Due to the nature of the prize, this giveaway is restricted to those living in the U.S. ONLY.
3. The giveaway will run from July 3-July 18, 2008. (12 PM PST.)
4. One entry per person, please.
5. I will put the entries in a hat (probably a real hat) and draw the winner after the giveaway is over.
Good luck!
My favorite white tee-shirt is actually a sheer white tank that I got from Wal-Mart of all places. It is soft, loosely cut, and hangs perfectly, allowing for layers or not. I wear it out and live in fear of the day it finally falls to pieces. This Elizabeth & James tee would be the absolute best possible replacement I could imagine!
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I like the colour black! But I like you. You don’t have to put me in the hat though.
I love reading your blog, and am of course psyched for a giveaway
My favorite is a light grey french cotton Uniqlo dress that I hacked off the bottom half of to become a shirt. After wearing it to bed for several months (and accidentally bleaching it with benzoyl peroxide from my nighttime beauty regiment…) It’s become perfectly stretched out, bleached out, & worn in, and is now the most excellent lounging around shirt.
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My fav tee is the one that my dad gave me from a concert he went to in 1978. It says “Spy vs. Six String Guitar” on it, which I guess was an old record store back in the day. It’s soooo comfortable, perfectly faded with just a few little worn in patches here and there. I wear it wayyyyy too much, but I guess that’s what you do with your fav tee!
The most important characteristic of a perfect t-shirt is softness. It can take ages to break in a t-shirt to the perfect degree of softness, which is why thrift stores are great for that. My favorite is heather gray, hip length, and says “South: Attitude is Everything.” Oh, yeah.
Without a doubt, a pewter-colored tee-shirt of Elvis in a “double finger snaps” pose, outlined in hot pink, standing against a backdrop of the kind of abstract triangles and circles that were popular in 80′s hair salon posters and the like. I got it at a Japanese consignment store called Be-Pop in Mt. View, because I’m fucking great.
Runner up would be a souvenir shirt from Ivar’s that says SLAM SOME CLAM. I think you know the one I’m talking about.
you’re in the running for this deconstructed tee huh…
Mine is a grey “Dixie Dregs tour of the Earth 1980-1981″ shirt. The words are bright blue. I got it from my mother, and it is older than I am. Words cannot adequately describe how soft it is. It’s so thin it shows its wear in the form of RUNS, like stockings have. The Dixie Dregs were a mostly-instrumental rock band involving nerds from Georgia. Electric violins were involved. My mom apparently worked the lights at their shows before I was a twinkle in her eye.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Dregs
My favorite tee-shirt is actually a Men’s Calvin Klein white shirt that I stole from my bf. It’s super comfty and looks great with jeans!! You can find those at Century 21 in 3 packs for around $20.
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Black American Apparel Jersey T which I stained with red splotches teaching my sixth graders how to dye with batik, back when I taught art class.
It might be the only authentically artsy thing that I own.
I don’t have any t-shirts…
Although, to answer the question, I adore two t-shirts, both my dad’s, both from the 80s, both smelling faintly of car oil, both of which are always being absconded from me by a sibling, and neither which quite works with any event or outfit but pajama time. And, oh! a t-shirt I don’t dare to wear – from Kentucky: “Lee surrendered. I did not.”
… I think I don’t wear t-shirts because they never fit me in a flattering way. Probably because I don’t spend enough money on them.
Ohh, giveaway! My favorite t-shirt is an old faded black t-shirt from my days as a crusty punk, incredibly soft with holes at the hems. Still love it to pieces.
Yay giveaway! My favorite t-shirt is from a trip to Beijing that my family took a few years ago. It’s one of those ‘I Climbed the Great Wall of China!” t-shirts. It was over 100 degrees that day and we paid this scamming tourist agency to take us to the Great Wall. To get to the actual Wall, we had to climb into a very old rubber tire and then slide (unsecured!) down this steep incline that led to a grassy knoll that led to one of the entrances to the Great Wall. My brother wears his t-shirt to skateboard and I cut mine into a cropped t-shirt. It’s bright yellow and I wear it with high-waisted shorts in the summers.
My favorite shirt is this really thin, light-weight cotton T from urban outfitters. It’s beige and goes with everything. I love it because I can wear it under things, over things, all by itself, dress it up or down, but most of all, I just love the way I feel in it!
my favorite t-shirt is ACTUALLY my friends t-shirt that I’ve kept from her for a while now. It has a picture of David sculpture my Leonardo DaVincci an says “Innocent” right above it. She purchased it while traveling in Hong Kong!
xoxox
Pretty sure my favorite t shirt is a vintage maroon one, with a faded rainbow stripe that reminds me of an old apple logo. I almost didn’t buy it at first, but my friend thankfully wouldn’t let me leave the store without it! : )
i like this t-shirt. count me in the contest!